2011
hosted by J.G. at Hotchpot Cafe
....as you can see, there are a lot of great books published in my birth year and I had tons of fun searching at Wikipedia. But think about it....can I really do this? Probably not so this is one challenge I'll have to save for next year. Check it out and just so you know, she has a way to complete the challenge with a different year if you find your birth year has nothing interesting to you. OH! There are prizes!
found so far with (notes) - even if I've read it, I love to reread my books and it wasn't read since before 2010.
~Completed~
June 21
June 21
Lloyd Alexander - The Black Cauldron (own)
Ray Bradbury - The Vintage Bradbury
Frank Herbert - Dune (own/read)
James A. Michener - The Source
God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
Hotel by Arthur Hailey
Dick Francis - For Kicks (own/read)
Dick Francis - Odds Against (own/read)
Kosmos by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz
The Genocides (science fiction)by American author Thomas M. Disch
Understrike by John Gardner
The Outsiders is a coming-of-age novel based in 1965 by S. E. Hinton (does this one count?) (own/read)
The Doorbell Rang (Nero Wolfe detective novel) by Rex Stout
The Sterile Cuckoo by John Nichols
Stoner by the American writer John Williams
Gentle Ben (children's novel) by author Walt Morey
Don't Stop the Carnival by American writer Herman Wouk
Midnight Cowboy by James Leo Herlihy (gotta read this one!)
The Graveyard Shift by Harry Patterson
Backtrack (western) by Milton Lott
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (science fiction) by Philip K. Dick
Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Philip K. Dick (In 1965 he wrote the essay titled Schizophrenia and the Book of Changes)
Whisper of Glocken (children's novel) by Carol Kendall
In the Heat of the Night by John Ball (they call me Mr. Tibbs)
Fire in the Punchbowl is the ninth book in the Punchbowl Farm series of novels by Monica Edwards
The Flag is a novel written by author and actor Robert Shaw. It was published in 1965.
Accident by Nicholas Mosley
The Painted Bird is a controversial novel by Jerzy Kosiński
The Fortunate Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe is a 1965 novel by Dionys Burger
Father Hilary's Holiday by Scottish writer Bruce Marshall
Of the Farm by the American author John Updike
The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch
A Tree Full of Stars by American author Davis Grubb
Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen (science fiction) by H. Beam Piper
A Vision of Battlements by Anthony Burgess
City of a Thousand Suns (science fiction)by Samuel R. Delany
Visa for Avalon Bryher
This Animal is Mischievous by David Benedictus
Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce
Peter Currell Brown is the author of the cult classic surrealist novel Smallcreep's Day
The Millstone by Margaret Drabble
The Ballad of Beta-2 (science fiction) by Samuel R. Delany
The Grange at High Force (children's novel) by Philip Turner
The Animal Family (children's novel) by American poet and critic Randall Jarrell
An American Dream is Norman Mailer 's fourth novel
Galahad at Blandings by P. G. Wodehouse, first published under the title The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood
Bushbabies (children's novel) by Canadian author William Stevenson
Golden Checkerboard (biographical novel) by Ed Ainsworth
Manchild in the Promised Land (autobiographical novel) written by Claude Brown
Subspace Explorers (science fiction) by E. E. "Doc" Smith
The Squares of the City by John Brunner
The Tin Men by Michael Frayn
The Drought (science fiction) by British author J. G. Ballard
The System of Dante's Hell (short novel) by African American writer LeRoi Jones
Roseanna by Sjöwall and Wahlöö
A Deadly Shade of Gold is the fifth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald
Bright Orange for the Shroud is a sixth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald
Desolation Angels (semi-autobiographical) byJack Kerouac
Ode to Gallantry by Jin Yong (Louis Cha)
Conquerors from the Darkness (science fiction) by Robert Silverberg
Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart
Kermit the Hermit (children's novel) written by Bill Peet
A Plague of Pythons (science fiction) by Frederik Pohl
At Bertram's Hotel Agatha Christi
The Drought (science fiction) by J. G. Ballard, an expanded version of The Burning World
A Suspension of Mercy (psychological thriller) by Patricia Highsmith
Today is Tonight written by Hollywood actress Jean Harlow
At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen
And Call Me Conrad Roger Zelazn
Stormbringer Michael Moorcock
The Arrows of Hercules (historical) by L. Sprague de Camp,
Frederica by Georgette Heyer
Bill, the Galactic Hero (satirical science fiction) by Harry Harrison
Outside the House of Baal Emyr Humphreys
Take Me Where the Good Times Are by Robert Cormier
Modesty Blaise (spy fiction) by Peter O'Donnell
The Arm of the Starfish (young adult) by Madeleine L'Engle
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Hardboiled Crime Fiction) by Chester Himes
A Green Tree in Gedde (New Edition). Richard Drew. 1987. Re-issue of Alan Sharp's 1965 novel.
The James Bond Dossier 1965, by Kingsley Amis , is a critical analysis of the James Bond novels
Caroline Anne Mather
The Mind Readers (crime novel) by Margery Allingham
The Mouthpiece of Zitu (science fiction) by John Ulrich Giesy
Palos of the Dog Star Pack (science fiction) by John Ulrich Giesy
Friends In Low Places is Volume II of the Alms for Oblivion by Simon Raven, published in 1965. It was the second novel to be published in The Alms for Oblivion sequence and is the third novel chronologically.
Lost Empires by J. B. Priestley
To Fear a Painted Devil by British writer Ruth Rendell
The Magus by John Fowles
Farnham's Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
Gordon R. Dickson
1965 The Alien Way, sf novel
1965 Mission to Universe, sf novel
1965 Space Winners, young-adult sf novel
The Wizard of Lemuria is a fantasy written by Lin Carter
William S. Burroughs
a Valentine's Day Reading
Time
The Maker of Universes, Dare ISBN 1-600-10438-X Philip Jose Farmer
A Wrinkle In The Skin (aka The Ragged Edge) is a 1965 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel written by the British author Samuel Youd under the pen name of John Christopher
Sam Chance by Benjamin Capps
The Slow Natives by Australian author Thea Astley
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4 comments:
Welcome, Book Dragon! You were born in a great year! Lots to choose from here.
Remember you only have to choose and read one book to qualify for a prize in the challenge. Are you leaning toward one or two in particular?
Oh, my. I thought you were going to try to read them all.
You have a lot of good choices there!
Hello -- just checking in while wrapping up the BYRC for 2011. It looks like you finished, so do I owe you a prize?
If so, can you please e-mail me at hotchpotcafe (at) gmail.com and I will reply with the list of book prizes.
Thanks! Hope your new year was/is a great one.
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